Monday, July 25, 2011

Vietnamese Summer Rolls

I made this more than a couple of weeks ago and have only now found the time/inclination to put this up. These rolls taste like a warm summer day in an orchard - if that taste could be in a roll.

I saw a recipe for summer rolls in one of my favourite blogs and finally got around to making it.

Recipe

1 cup of fresh basil1 cup of fresh mint1 inch piece of ginger cut into thin juliennes2 small carrots cut into juliennesone small head of lettuce2 oz of thin rice vermicelli ( soaked in hot water according to package instructions)about 10 sprigs of cilantro/coriander leavesrice paper wraps (available in any Asian store)

Prepare all the ingredients and put them out in a plate. Warm some water and pour it into a shallow pan where you can dip your rice paper wraps. Dip the wrap, make sure all of it is under water for a few seconds and place on a clean dry surface. Add a few lettuce leaves that have been roughly torn into large chunks. Add a few basil leaves, a few mint leaves, some carrot, a spring of coriander, some ginger. Place all of these in one end of the wrap. Add a little cooked vermicelli. Make a roll by tucking the sides under the vegetables and make a wrap. Veggie belly has lovely pictures illustrating how to do this.

And that's it. I am going to make them all the time. To store , make ahead,put on a plate, cover with a damp towelette, wrap with plastic and cool in fridge.

nmaha thank you for visiting. They are fun dishes to make with the family and I have seen recipes with all sorts of ingredients inside these. Domestic daddy has an amazing eye, does he not? Esp that bathroom that he wallpapers recently... loved it..